How to Use degradation in a Sentence

degradation

noun

• English teachers bemoaning the degradation of the language that e-mail and instant messaging have allegedly brought about.
• Such cracking is a major cause of battery degradation over time.
  — Jordan Wilkerson, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• We are then left with a tradeoff of public safety and quality of life and a degradation of our way of life.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024
• But to work as a vaccine or a medicine, the fragile molecules would need to be shielded in the bloodstream to prevent degradation on their way to cells.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2022
• But many aspects of the plan appear to skirt a fine line between environmental protection and degradation.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
• But as more ships come in and out of the region, the chances that large-scale environmental degradation will occur is high, Moerman said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2021
• All of this is part of a reinforcing cycle of land degradation and climate change that the Coeur d’Alene Tribe has been fighting for decades.
  — Joseph Lee, Vox, 14 Oct. 2024
• The problem for lithium-ion batteries is capacity and degradation.
  — Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 18 Jan. 2022
• Instead, they’re passed on to the public through taxation, lost income due to ill health, and the price of mitigating and adapting to climate change and environmental degradation.
  — Judith Magyar, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• Second, through the autophagy-lysosome pathway, whereby debris is delivered to the lysosome, a specialized membrane, for degradation.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Delta 8 is produced in the cannabis plant through the degradation of delta 9.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• These three factors will work together to slow down the degradation of the food.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
• In the predawn chill, the laborer curses his degradation; in the twilight, the bodies of Israelis are given to the earth.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• For at least two decades, that habitat work has been used to justify degradation from the many dams on the river.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
• This Ocean Decade calls for a worldwide effort to reverse the oceans’ degradation.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
• When this occurs, nutrients from the blood are unable to reach the eye due to the degradation of the blood vessels and the retinal membrane.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• This will prevent the slow chemical degradation of the fuel in the mower over the winter.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• Writings from the past reveal so much to us—about ourselves as much as about the people of the past, about our progress as well as our degradation.
  — WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• This way, all the drug gets circulated throughout the body and avoids degradation in the stomach.
  — Tom Anchordoquy, The Conversation, 17 June 2022
• Yet for years, Selig aided and abetted the A’s blundering in search of a new ballpark, and the degradation of the A’s franchise to its current state.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• Land degradation or drought affect 169 countries, with Asia and Africa the hardest-hit.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• The goal is for the Ioniq to be able to complete two laps with little performance degradation.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023
• This degradation was top of mind at this year’s conference.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• According to studies, the rate of degradation depends on the surface area of the product.
  — Alex Zhang, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Backers cite changing climate, the loss of animal species and the degradation of the hillsides.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• What, if anything, can customers do to slow or stop degradation ahead of the microcode update?
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 26 July 2024
• The project will allow the degradation to happen and turn the area behind it into floodplain forest, Miller said.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2024
• At least 30 of the complaints described foam degradation, but the FDA said the reports did not indicate that any patients had been harmed.
  — Haajrah Gilani, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2024
• Castroneves ran in the top-half of the field Saturday but struggled late with tire degradation and drifted back to 16th.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2022
• The idiom of Formula 1 is a Ph.D.-level patter of ride heights, tire-degradation curves, strat modes, and gurney flaps.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024